Lens-Based Artists:
1.) Alicia Nicas Miquel
I am categorizing “Food Face
Collage” as lens-based because the collage itself is made up of several images.
I could not find information about Miquel or a description about her work. This
week, I wanted to look at collages with backgrounds to see if I can get any
ideas. I think that the background for this collage is successful because it
fits well with the subject matter filling the woman. The woman in the collage
is made up of “healthy” food and flowers. Miquel here is comparing healthy food
with the idea of beauty and purity. I like that she added mountains to her
background because it gives you a sense of serenity, something that fits with
the overall message of the work.
2.) “Fast Food: Ads vs.
Reality”
I am categorizing this
article as “lens-based” this week, because I want to talk more about the
photographs than the actual article. If you click on the link to the article (I
will post pictures below), you will see a drastic difference between the
photographs on the left and the photographs on the right. The photographs on
the left were taken for a specific advertisement. The photographs on the right
are what you would actually get in real life. As you can see, the real life
food looks nothing like the food you would see on an advertisement. This makes
you stop and think about the food you are actually consuming: why still eat it
if you know that you are flat out being lied to?
3.) Emi Illig
That’s me! I continued to
add on to my self-referential-differential project. I think turning it into a video blog is a
cool idea (thanks Thomas!). Below is this week’s video. Disregard the meowing
cat in the background (she was just mad that I kicked her out to work on this
project). I also have the collages below that I talked about in the video. The
first one is the silhouette I completely filled with hamburgers. I have decided
to go more in the direction of the second one. I really like how you get the
idea that these women are still people. It also questions this: what happens
when we start to become what we consume?
Non-Lens-Based Artists:
1.) Sandro Botticelli: “The Birth of Venus”
“The Birth of Venus” is one
of Botticelli’s most famous works as well as one of the most recognizable
images in art history. Venus, looking like a classical statue, rises from the
sea and floats on a seashell. I would most like to reference this painting
through my hamburger collage. I would like to take a Big Mac container and
paint it the color of the seashell (and even add a few details to make it look
like a real seashell). I then would like to print out my hamburger collage
really small, and construct it so that when you open the Big Mac container, my
collage will pop out. I am really excited to get going with this idea!
2.) Paul Morris
Paul Morris is a
contemporary artist that mainly works with ceramics. His work entitled “Food
Tetrahedron” relates to my topic because it deals with food consumption. This
work is literally a representation of a pile of food made out of pylon; Morris
however is clever about the description of the work (he calls it
pylon/pile-on). His clever play on words go hand in hand with the idea of
consumption: we are literally just piling this food into our bodies. If you
take a closer look at the work, you will see that the placing of the food in
the pile is not random, it is meant to represent the food pyramid.
2.) Ben Heine
http://www.benheine.com/
Ben Heine is a Belgian
multidisciplinary artist who started off as a painter and cartoonist. He is now
widely known for his “Digital Circlism” and “Pencil vs. Camera” projects
(Photoshop and photography). In one of his illustration projects
“McDonaldization”, Heine criticizes the fast food industry (McDonald’s in
particular). Specifically, he criticizes the globalization of McDonald’s and
how it is affecting people’s lives.
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